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Les enfants terribles, Gaumont Distribution présente ; Melville Productions ; Jean-Pierre Melville présente ; adaptation et dialogues de Jean Cocteau ; production et réalisation de Jean-Pierre Melville

In French, with optional English subtitlesBased on the novel by Jean CocteauBooklet contains drawings by Jean Cocteau from book: The Holy Terrors (Les enfants terribles)Special features: Optional audio commentary by film critic Gilbert Adair; "About the film" featuring interviews with producer Carole Weisweiller, actors Nicole Stéphane and Jacques Bernard, and assistant director Claude Pinoteau (15 min.); interview with actor Nicole Stéphane excerpted from the French television program "L'Invite" with host Patrick Simonin (13 min.); "Around Jean Cocteau" (2003), a short video by filmmaker Noël Simsolo discussing Cocteau and Melville's creative relationship (17 min.); stills gallery; theatrical trailer (3 min.)Videodisc release of the 1950 French motion picture by GaumontContainer insert includes the essay "Hazards of a snowball fight" by film scholar Gary Indiana, an essay by actor Nicole St́éphane, and a Q & A with producer Jean-Pierre Melville, excerpted from "Melville on Melville, " by interviewer Rui NogueiraNot rated

Midwest Tape

black and white

monaural

Producer/director, Jean-Pierre Melville ; screenplay, Jean Cocteau ; cinematography, Henri Decaë ; editor, Monique Bonnot ; music, Vivaldi, Johann Sebastian Bach

other

Standard format.

9781934121702

videodisc

Voice: Jean CocteauNicole Stéphane, Edouard Dermithe, Renée Cosima, Jacques Bernard, Roger Gaillard, Maurice Revel, Adeline Aucoc, Melvyn Martin, Maria Cyliakus, Jean-Marie Robain, Rachel Devirys, Emile Mathys

1 videodisc (106 min.), sound, black and white, 4 3/4 in. +, 1 booklet (27 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).

sound on medium

videodisc

(OCoLC)123452230

DVD, Dolby digital mono

71551502492100715515024921

CC1707D -- Criterion Collection

DVD